Wednesday, June 11, 2014

State of Salazar post EPK

Frontiers
Records is pleased to announce the release of Swedish melodic rockers STATE
OF SALAZAR debut album entitled “All the Way” on August 22nd in Europe
and August 26th in North America.

STATE OF SALAZAR came
to the attention of Frontiers A&R dept after the release of their debut EP
”Lost my Way” in the summer of 2012. Reviews spread fast in magazines and blogs
and created a flood of praise from all over the world during a very short
period: “This is something that can grow really big.” “...State Of Salazar will
undoubtedly be one of the highlights of the genre.” “…this EP is an extremely
polished piece of art...” “The performances and the production are
superb…” With bands such as
Toto, Queen, Journey, Survivor and especially Bill Conti and Vince DiCola (Rocky
IV’s « Training Montage » writer and performer) in their influences list, STATE
OF SALAZAR have indeed a lot to prove. They handle all this pressure with their
heads held high since it is a quintet with great musicians! All members
– Marcus Nygren, vocals, Johan Thuresson, guitars, Johannes
Hansson, bass, Kristian Brun, drums and Stefan Mårtenson,
keyboards – have extensive live and studio experience. In other words, these
guys know what they are doing and they already showed it to the unsuspecting
public of the first Frontiers Rock Festival in Milan where they took the
audience by surprise with their “feel good” Melodic Rock music.“I feel that I’ve
developed my songwriting a lot since the songs for the EP” says singer Marcus
Nygren. “However everyone of us put his own personality on the musical
performances on the album and every single detail has been worked with and we
sound like a band who took it All The Way!”. “More than a year of
hard work from everyone involved, made it possible for us to develop our sound
and actually find out who we are, musically as a group” adds bassist Johannes
Hansson. “From epic synths, angelic choirs and guitar soundscapes to unison
low E-string riffs we've allowed ourselves to indulge what we want the music to
say without having to adapt. Believe me when I say that big things are coming in
2014”, concludes guitarist Johan Thuresson.STATE OF SALAZAR is
therefore ready to show the world that they are definitely not a retro band, or
a walk down memory lane. They write songs and play music that strives forward
and not backwards. Their songwriting, arranging and instrumental performance
show that this is a band that wants to develop and give its contribution to the
Melodic Rock genre.

“All The Way” will include the following tracks:I Believe In You; Field
Of Dreams; All the Way; Love Of My Life; Eat Your Heart Out; Time to Say
Goodbye; Marie; Let Me Love; Catastrophe; Always; Adrian; End of
Time.